Steven Klein
Steven Klein is a contemporary fine art and commercial photographer. A highly influential and in-demand figure in the fashion industry, his photographs of models, actors, and celebrities are characterized by a sinister and enigmatic sense of dread. Klein's personal vocabulary of cinematic and pop culture references is evident throughout his work, often involving ideas of hypersexuality, ultra-violence, cyberpunk, biomechanical life, and bourgeois society. Of his work’s disturbing and opaque quality, the artist has observed, “I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There’s a sense that you can’t get in.”
Born in Rhode Island on April 30, 1965, he went on to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where his interest quickly shifted to photography. One of his most famous pictorials ran in the July 1999 issue of W magazine and featured Brad Pitt portraying his character from the movie Fight Club. He has enjoyed widespread commercial success and has been commissioned and used by many different fashion designers and pop musicians.
His lyrical work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, from the Gagosian Gallery in California to the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery in Florence. In 2002 the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland exhibited a retrospective of his …
Steven Klein is a contemporary fine art and commercial photographer. A highly influential and in-demand figure in the fashion industry, his photographs of models, actors, and celebrities are characterized by a sinister and enigmatic sense of dread. Klein's personal vocabulary of cinematic and pop culture references is evident throughout his work, often involving ideas of hypersexuality, ultra-violence, cyberpunk, biomechanical life, and bourgeois society. Of his work’s disturbing and opaque quality, the artist has observed, “I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There’s a sense that you can’t get in.”
Born in Rhode Island on April 30, 1965, he went on to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where his interest quickly shifted to photography. One of his most famous pictorials ran in the July 1999 issue of W magazine and featured Brad Pitt portraying his character from the movie Fight Club. He has enjoyed widespread commercial success and has been commissioned and used by many different fashion designers and pop musicians.
His lyrical work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, from the Gagosian Gallery in California to the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery in Florence. In 2002 the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland exhibited a retrospective of his work up to that point. In 2003, Soho’s Deitch Projects in New York City debuted X-STaTCI PRO=CeSS, a collection of photos that Klein collaborated on with Madonna, who later used those images on her Re-Invention tour.
